LeeBot wrote:People rest the cigars after getting them to let the humidity even out to the level they prefer. Sometimes it means humidifying dry cigars, but as you see, sometimes it means letting the humidity come down. You could take the cellophane off ones that you want to smoke first, and they will acclimate faster.
Somebody on here said to give them a week of rest in your humidor for each day of travel. That seems like a pretty good rule of thumb.
It is.
Of course, there’s also “accidental” rest. I’ve noticed that as my cigar collection got bigger and I had a wider selection of cigars to smoke, it was easier and easier to take a new shipment, stash it away and not be tempted to try one ROTT (…sorry Howard…). By the time I remembered / ran across them, it could easily be two to 3 months. These days I put an event into my calendar to remind me.